Alfred Jospe

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Alfred Jospe (born March 31, 1909 in Berlin , † November 19, 1994 in Washington, DC ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Jospe was the son of the cantor Joseph Jospe and his wife Rosa Cerini. On December 2, 1934, Jospe became a district rabbi in Schneidemühl .

From 1928 to 1934 Jospe studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and was ordained in 1932. At the same time he studied at the University of Wroclaw , where he also received his doctorate.

In autumn 1936 Jospe was called to Berlin and since then has been a rabbi and preacher in the New Synagogue on Oranienburgerstrasse . After the November pogroms in 1938 and his release from imprisonment in Sachsenhausen , Jospe first went to Great Britain.

In June 1939 Alfred Jospe emigrated with his wife and daughter to the USA , where he worked, among other things, for the Jewish student organization Hillel , of which he was director from 1971 to 1975.

Works

  • Studies in Jewish Thought . Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1981, ISBN 0-8143-1676-X .
  • The differentiation between myth and religion in Hermann Cohen and Ernst Cassirer's meaning for the Jewish religious philosophy . Wiercimok, Oppeln 1932. (Dissertation)
As a translator and editor

literature

  • Jospe, Alfred , in: Joseph Walk : Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 176.
  • Jospe, Alfred , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Saur, Munich 1980, p. 366.

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personal data
SURNAME Jospe, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1994
Place of death Washington, DC